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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Louis Krupp    |
|    Re: Angle Units For Trig Functions    |
|    23 Oct 24 00:57:23    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:14:14 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:              > On 10/21/2024 10:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       >       >> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:35:25 -0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl wrote:       >>       >>> % gfcx -o z a.f90 && ./z 0.500000000 0.500089288       >>>       >>> One of these values is exact, and one of these raises FE_INEXACT.       >>       >> Does it work for 29° and 31° as well? What’s so special about 30°?       >       > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven%27s_theorem              So a whole set of extra functions, just to get a nice result for one       value?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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